Named Entity Results, Whitworth

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me that as the different commands were so mixed up he could not execute my order without calling my men from the banquette, which would endanger too many valuable lives.
While inside of the palisade Captain Hale saw several men wounded by splinters from the palisade, and two of the gallant artillerists shot down in quick succession while attempting to fire one of the two pieces.
Before I left, I saw the artillery withdrawn from the fort in rear of and above Fort Gregg, called by some, Whitworth, and others, Anderson.
It was this that caused me to state in my letter to General Wilcox, that Harris's brigade abandoned that fort before Fort Gregg was attacked in force.
After putting Lieutenant Snow in command of that part of my brigade which was in Fort Gregg, Captain Hale and Lieutenant Meade, of my staff, Lieutenant Thomas M. Wiggins, of the Thirty-seventh North Carolina, and I, started for the Dam at a dignified quick-step, but the enemy's infantry fire soon made us double-qui

mitting my orders, the ammunition had been ordered up before he reached the field; also, I assumed immediate command of Whitworth, as the larger part of my command occupied it; this would imply that it was an act of volition on his part, instead of ss the gorge; here began an unfinished trench, some thirty yards long.
It was the purpose to have connected Gregg with Whitworth, but it was never done.
On the embankment of this they mounted easily, and from this to the parapet of Gregg, and soonLee in person.
He had been ordered to report to me by the commanding General, and I had assigned him to the command of Whitworth, and in it were, besides his brigade, four pieces of artillery.
His permitting the artillery to be withdrawn, lessened and timely act of General Harris, setting fire to the log-cabin winter quarters of a brigade that covered the front of Whitworth; he thus held the enemy at bay, and during that time the four guns — had they remained — could have delivered a rapid f